"oh boy I got the new dlc I can't wait to see what new content there is" *plays another imperium of man campaign*
@EstrellaViajeViajero9 ай бұрын
My problem is that if I buy it, it encourages Paradox to start pricing all new Story Packs at this price point. And then, what next? $30-40 Expansions?
@fecekk9 ай бұрын
I have pretty same feeling about it and even the gaming industry these days. They give us expensive crap and expect to thank them
@ErossMcCloud9 ай бұрын
pirate it
@bsh73909 ай бұрын
Must stop buying it
@theflame59199 ай бұрын
Inflation is a thing. Global recession is also a thing. Global energy war (Ukraine, Middle East; Orient) over energy supply logistics by all the major powers (BRICS vs NATO), is a thing. Consequences are many. One of those, is collapse of fiscal stability, market instability and devaluing of fiat currency purchasing power, is all a thing, and will continue for some time. To put it in simple terms, anything not related to food and energy provisions, is at this point a luxury, that includes gaming. This will continue.
@bsh73909 ай бұрын
@@theflame5919 It's ok, just push the price and blame Inflation, global shit issue over. It doesn't make sense that this dlc can cost such amount of money with such lack content + buggy shit.
@razielonex24699 ай бұрын
The caveat with the price is that future DLCs will be at the price same level as Astral Planes. Pretty much every new game is priced higher than before 1-2 years and it was just a matter of time that this price hike will effect DLCs too.
@barryevans7919 ай бұрын
That's true, but the argument is that it should not be. Just take a look at the controversy around the Total War games currently.
@tuskular9 ай бұрын
@@barryevans791 Yeah but the total war games is waaaaaay worse, not only do there dlcs add in way less but they also release the new lords as turbo buffed, if you buy the expo its basically an auto win in multiplayer, at least with stellaris they are definitely releasing significantly more re-playable content and they always release a big FREE patch with the expos, to me its pretty clear there mostly increasing the price due to inflation..
@sakkra839 ай бұрын
It's called inflation. I can remember getting full priced games for 50 DM. adjusted for Inflation that is today now 70 €. It is the way our money system works.
@barryevans7919 ай бұрын
@@tuskular A 100% increase in a couple of years is not inflation, it is probably to cover the cost of City Skylines 2, just as Warhammer DLC is to cover the cost of Pharoh. This was pointed out in the video when he compared it to an earlier DLC with the same amount of content, but it cost £8 instead of the £20 that this one does.
@razielonex24699 ай бұрын
@@sakkra83 Inflation alone is not the sole reason. In the last two decades there was no significant price hike for video games even with inflation every year. Because the cost of nearly everything exploded, in short time (pandemic btw) and the threshold to keep video game prices constant was overrun. On other note, buying a game for 50 bucks in 1992 that is playable, at best, for 10h and maybe not a good game at all, was common. The perspective comparing game prices in the early 90s (or even earlier) to our present is humongous. I'm not justifing any prices hikes, neither Stellaris nor any other game related stuff, just an interesting thought.
@Kasaaz9 ай бұрын
Weirdly the rift system reminds me most of the way they handle primitives and observation now. I kind of wish we could assign a Scientist to oversee observation if we wanted and it would offer us more options.
@siruoro67189 ай бұрын
Right? The primitives (at least without the "First Contact" DLC, like I don't have it (yet!)) I feel like any primitive civilization is just a minor 'cool thing to have'
@Kasaaz9 ай бұрын
I guess you need First Contact for the Archaeotech insights, etc? I was just thinking those are kind of like the rewards with the Astral Abilities
@TheNo159 ай бұрын
@@siruoro6718first contact doesn’t really improve it you’re not missing much
@MrStrangeUsername9 ай бұрын
Wait so are rifts just handled in dialogue events? I thought there'd be actual new systems to send ships into at least...
@Kasaaz9 ай бұрын
It's just more complicated Archeology with a specific currency that probably doesn't need to exist.
@onebadidea98259 ай бұрын
Should see if the fleet you can summon can be turned into a merc enclave. Edit: so I checked it out, they can not have leaders so you can't make the enclave. They are super strong tho. I'm playing with the guardianship civic and when in my territory they are reaching 31k around year 80. Not sure if they are going to scale more other then my own bonuses. I can see why they couldn't have leaders tho, as a psionic clone leader would make the fleet extremely scary.
@IapitusMcHeimer9 ай бұрын
Good idea
@MrMaradok9 ай бұрын
To late, had it preordered. *THE COLLECTION MUST BE COMPLETE*
@Gerlaffy9 ай бұрын
Sureeee but at full price? Right away?
@MemekingSupreme9 ай бұрын
You're part of the problem
@MrMaradok9 ай бұрын
@@Gerlaffy Yes…I may have poor impulse control…
@dantereinhardt69119 ай бұрын
Montu: "Should you buy Astral planes?" Me: You are one purchase too late.
@mattseman56829 ай бұрын
That opening bit couldn't have described my reaction any more perfectly. I see Stellaris DLC; I buy Stellaris DLC. I do this with no other game. Still loved the video, and thanks for all you do, Montu!
@Nibmus9 ай бұрын
I do this with Stellaris and, unfortunately, EU4 as well lmao
@SkyForceOne29 ай бұрын
@@Nibmus i quit EU4 years ago because their dlcs did not add anything meaningful except more randomly very specific modifiers. the game's core mechanics were the real problem, it always felt bland and boring. It's like a worse CK. You essentially do the same stuff, EU4 just is more dumbed down and provides no challenge later on.
@Nibmus9 ай бұрын
@@SkyForceOne2 I think I still enjoy EU4 because of its core mechanics and all that. I like building up my nation and being efficient and becoming the strongest in the world. Taking the modifiers and stacking them til they reached the moon. And then conquering the world with it. Probably why I enjoy Stellaris so much xd CK never really clicked with me because your empire can fall apart pretty easily, and imo you want that to happen because it drives the narrative and honestly I think that's CK at its best: when you're following the narrative of your bloodline instead of focusing on your nation. Sadly that kind of stuff never really interested me in the first place xd to me losing your country to your brothers or your dukes was a failure state and I hated when it happened. But I'll agree that EU4 is getting dated and an update to its systems is in order.
@SkyForceOne29 ай бұрын
@@Nibmus what disappoints me is just the Paradox-Syndrome: Core systems/engine need and overhaul, yet alot of people playing the game have so many DLCs and are so far invested, that they'll buy anything we release as an add-on for it. Just change a few old mechanics to the point where you can enjoy them without having the DLC anymore. .... and then they publish shitshows like Skylines 2...
@Herbertti39 ай бұрын
Stellaris, CK3 and Vic3 for me.
@timothypeterson47819 ай бұрын
The opening joke was great. Well done.
@ulruc9 ай бұрын
Considering I am not working at the moment and that because of that, I haven't got yet First Contact and Paragon, I will not get this new one right now. Maybe as you said in a sale it could be good. In canadian dollars, even with the 10% reduction, it still cost 22.49 instead of 24.99. For the other two, they are at 18.99 on their regular price. When I see that Baldur's Gate 3 costed me much less than all these DLCs in total and that I played 475 hours for 4 campaigns without late-game lag, I'll admit that I might become a bit picky with games that "features" a lot of expansions. I love Stellaris, I still do. And I played nearly 1400 hours. Still, BG3 and Cyberpunk 2.0 + Phantom Liberty have changed my perspective on a few things...
@bsh73909 ай бұрын
It's even worse in other third world country like mine, got increased like 70% skyrocket
@aze949 ай бұрын
From how you described it, the rift system seems to have more in common with the espionage operations rather than the archeology sites.
@DemonKing199519 ай бұрын
Makes sense, you're researching an active phenomena not a dead one from ages past. Personally I hope the espionage system gets a slight rework to feel more engaging but now that you mention it ya they're almost the same.
@DrewBreckner9 ай бұрын
So long as it’s actually good at what it’s trying to do - which it seems like you think it is - then that’s good enough for me. If people specifically want more narrative content and how much they’re willing to pay is going to vary a lot from person to person.
@swedichboy10009 ай бұрын
7:45 Thats Paradox for you, modifiers untop of modifiers without anything tangible.
@theelement92bomb49 ай бұрын
PSA: tech bonuses are a bit bugged atm. As standard, I built a bunch of hydroponics on all my starbases for obvious reasions. If you hover over them in the starbase menu, they apply proper bonuses such as from eco stimulation and the sort. However, if you check the resource overview at the top of the screen, the tech bonuses are not being applied and each hydroponics is only producing the base 10 food
@Deleteaware9 ай бұрын
Great, as a console player I wasn’t expecting this DLC to show up until 2030 as least.
@letsplaysvonaja17149 ай бұрын
I wouldn't compare rift world to toxic god it's more similar to on the shoulders of giants staying intentionally vague here: you start with a rift in your home system and when you're finished with that (which can easily be done in the first few decades) you get hints that there will be more story later, just like how on the shoulders of giants is just a handful of archeology spots at first but later you find something interesting
@TrueWolves9 ай бұрын
Yeah this was my comparison feeling too. I loved On the Shoulder of Giants as my go to origin before Broken Shackles. And the new origin felt quite a bit like it. I would love a few more origins with a few more procedurally themed backgrounds.
@ChasePhillips79 ай бұрын
Thanks for the review Montu! I think I may end up picking it up, but I definitely see how it isn't for everyone. I like the narratives that come out the game, and if it really adds hours of content to explore then I can see myself really digging into it. I kinda hate to support higher prices for DLC with my wallet, but the sad fact is that inflation is probably gonna hit video games hard in the next couple of years. We've been lucky that gaming prices didn't change much for so long.
@ErossMcCloud9 ай бұрын
pirate it
@cjwarrington1779 ай бұрын
The dream (and you would need an apocalyptically powerful PC in the present build of the game for this to ever be possible) is that astral rifts eventually become a way for the late game to evolve into interacting with entirely new galaxies. I want a galactic custodian squaring off against a galactic emperor. Ah well, maybe by the time Stellaris 3 rolls around.
@lavasurfer65489 ай бұрын
That would be so cool
@20ZZ209 ай бұрын
that would be cool, i started playing again recently after years with a brand new PC rather than shitty laptop and it still struggles late game lol
@Twiggy1639 ай бұрын
Would be a nice tie-in with becoming the crisis. You could be the unbidden of that new galaxy. Or be drop-kicked straight back to your starter galaxy...
@haka-katyt7439Ай бұрын
It'd be cool if there was a way to become the crisis for some other players galaxy, imagine how terrifying it would be if the Unbidden actually had strategically designed ships
@donbemont79019 ай бұрын
So far, I am finding the update aggravating, although it's mostly the free update rather than the paid DLC I am reacting to. Weird UI stuff. The way the leader information is laid out, it is really tough to sort out who will have what effect at the councilor, governor, and ship scientist level. The outliner, although I understand their reasons for breaking it up into parts, makes a previous weak point worse. It has always been very easy to miss that a science ship has no orders, particularly after dealing with an anomaly. Now, it is less likely to notice promptly in the outliner. Some weirdness in assigning council positions, apparently qualified leaders who don't stick. Sudden decrease in number of leader options, no apparent reason. My sense is that this needs to bake a little longer, get the kinks worked out. Honestly, I'm not sure whether it's bugs or shaky communication or a little of both.
@brianleap58309 ай бұрын
Already have all the other dlc and I get bored mid to late game because I'm more an explorer and defender than a warmonger. Sounds like it's a hard buy for me.
@anotherkenlon9 ай бұрын
I appreciate you putting your answer in the thumbnail, even if I still proceeded to watch the whole thing.
@josephbootle32319 ай бұрын
A good video to watch while waiting for the DLC to download
@Griffon-xm9yg9 ай бұрын
I only buy the DLCs when they're 50% off, so I'll wait regardless 😅 good information, I was curious what this DLC actually added
@smokinggnu65849 ай бұрын
It's got a Mostly Negative rating on steam. Seems to be some sort of major problems with the DLC not even showing up/being detected by the launcher after purchase.
@matthewedwards60259 ай бұрын
That's only the beginning of its problems, and one that Paradox fixed with a next-day hotfix patch. Many bonuses from leaders and perks no longer work. There are many, many bugs in this patch (and the gameplay balance of 3.10.0 is not very good either).
@Seamus_Cortez9 ай бұрын
Theres a relic called "The Continuum"? Like the continuum transfunctioner? The device thats said to be all that stands between the universe and violent destruction? :P
@furiouskaiser99149 ай бұрын
AAAAND THEEEEEN?
@verylargebigtoe4079 ай бұрын
I really liked the one where it just turned on the tutorial 200 years into the game
@sc2_Nightmare9 ай бұрын
I don't buy any of the DLC unless they are 50% off, and it has been a while since one was (at least one I don't have already).
@Dante-mr3rz9 ай бұрын
I also noticed that the price of older dlc now rarely drops below 25% off.
@EpicNerd2 ай бұрын
you see, I've played a couple games with this DLC. I think it's both incredible and situationally overpowered. My first game with it I played as the Human citizen federation from starship troopers. Trying to emulate this accurately, I went down the psychic route. You can only summon the dimensional fleet if your are psychic, and given how I was playing with a higher AI difficulty this one ability literally saved the entire playthrough on numerous occasions. The more you activate it, the stronger and stronger each summoned fleet gets, by the end game I was summoning fleets of 1 million strength and since they were disposable troops (leaving after 10 years) I would throw them at the front line of whatever war or crisis I was facing and usually it have a massive effect. (don't use the dimensional fleet against the Prethoryn or any other "missilemaxxers", also don't take it into combat in a pulsar system). The downside is that this fleet uses naval capacity, most of this run this wasn't an issue since I was almost constantly at war and almost never near my fleet cap. So if I was past naval cap as a result of the dimensional fleet, it was imperative to send it into the toughest battles asap. My second game with this dlc I played as a machine intelligence similar to the automatons from helldivers2. In this playthrough I got the Formless event. Through a choice option of 66% likelihood of success, it failed and I was faced with a mid game crisis version of the unbidden. I fought hard and with no thanks to the AIs in this game, I defeated them and claimed a relic known as the celestial throne, you can see it at 4:30 in the lower left. This is probably the most powerful relic in the game IMO, because this relic's active effect is to boost your monthly astral thread production by 333% effectively tripling it. Now, remember those astral thread edicts that are mentioned? one of those is called "astral binding", it boosts all your production of everything by 10% after other modifiers no questions asked. However astral binding is way too expensive to run all the time normally, but by spamming the throne relic, you can :) So if you've read all this, start THREADMAXXING
@mariotcarreon9 ай бұрын
Another Montu Plays video? It feels like you've been releasing content nearly every other day! Truly we are blessed to have Montu as our benevolent lizard overlord.
@rake4833 ай бұрын
I would buy it immediately for 10€, but 20€ is a bit much for so little content. It also hasn't been on sale so far, so I will continue to wait.
@mistercomment16228 ай бұрын
I was very tempted to buy it instantly but after seeing it rated on Steam as mostly negative, I decided I wait on -50%.
@RoncoRaptor9 ай бұрын
I already have all the other dlcs I want so I'll be getting this soon. Thanks for the review!
@TheOverseerDDF6 ай бұрын
Should take into account that it makes MP really unstable aswell. As soon as our mp lobby started using astral planes, desyncs and crashes have skyrocketed, and when we turned it off, the desyncs and crashes stopped (we were playing pure vanilla aswell btw. mods weren't the issue).
@InfoJazz9 ай бұрын
The intro is genius
@andreasm.70259 ай бұрын
And the quality goes down at paradox with every release and finally reached these stars, too.
@louiswinterhoff3349 ай бұрын
I’d love to wait, but I tried that with First Contact and Galactic Paragons and the sale never came even 7-8 months later. Although with Christmas approaching it might be different.
@Sanvone9 ай бұрын
There weren't good sales since aquatics at least :/
@El_Presidente_53379 ай бұрын
Dark Consortium is definetly somwthing appealing for crisis empires. I don't have any other civics currently in mind but I imagine also going fanatic spiritualist for more unity to unlock become the crisis faster. PS: But you need citadels and collosal assembly yards anyway so 🤷
@erebusvonmori80507 ай бұрын
On the other hand, going Dark Consortium pretty much screams 'kill me first' in multiplayer
@kazull85939 ай бұрын
Another reason to wait: many people who have bought the DLC (though steam) find that the game is random about if it will recognize that you have the DLC or not. Combine that with crashes that randomly kick you out of the game and you have a cycle of pain where you can't resume a game because it no longer thinks you have the DLC... For a company that plans to profit on DLCs, they should at least make 100% sure the people who buy the DLC can play it as intended.
@jonathangiese57279 ай бұрын
I've also been experiencing crashes, though oddly they seem to only begin around the year 2250, from which point they trigger each time I unpause the game.
@Kristaliorn9 ай бұрын
Wish the DLC's would come with more pre made empires...
@Iggxzy9 ай бұрын
I bought it, it's 20% off on certain stores. I am a Stellaris DLC collector ^^
@sylvie_v29399 ай бұрын
got it, so Montu finishes the leader trait tier list first and new relic video
@wp27469 ай бұрын
This dlc story pack was outsourced right, what is your opinion about how paradox will handle future dlc this way plz ?
@matthewedwards60259 ай бұрын
The problems this patch has caused should warn Paradox not to do this in the future, except that they were probably doing it to cut costs so they'll do it in the future.
@wile1234568 ай бұрын
I just wish we'd get more graphics, like we could actually see inside the rifts. Just having a tiny jpeg in menu of text feels very boring to me
@KarmaEpsilon9 ай бұрын
If you're picky you might not want to grab it but it gave us a lot of what I wanted and I have gotten lucky with bugs being minimal
@somebodyelse3029 ай бұрын
20€ for an ape portrait and some new shenaningans.
@edwing729 ай бұрын
I don’t plan on getting toxoids because it seems lame, getting the same vibe off this one.
@somebodyelse3029 ай бұрын
@@edwing72 Me too. I'm waiting for the last and final dlc in 2-3 years. Then i'll buy everything at once.
@sloki25278 ай бұрын
As someone who already owns all the other dlc I don’t regret buying it for 20 at all. Every run I’ve done since it came out has been dimensional worshipers and it makes it to where instead of rift exploring being mid to late game it becomes one of the first things you can do. It becomes super overpowered when you’re getting all these advantages so early on
@siruoro67189 ай бұрын
Dunno man, all I saw was that one could block wormholes in your thumbnail and was hooked just at that. That said, I always wait for a good sell for pretty much any dlc
@hersh11389 ай бұрын
I will say part of it for me was steam had it 10% off and the last two dlc haven't gone on sale at all yet. Haven't had a chance to play it yet but mid to late game exploring is very welcome if it works right. Still feel like that is the weakest point in game.
@honestylowkeye11719 ай бұрын
Solid take. I have all the other DLCs and am obviously eager for more narrative content, but I really haven't explored the game to the extent that I urgently need more, so I'll probably wait for a sale. I'll tell you one thing, though: trying to accumulate 50k dark matter at +30/month (to win as the crisis) while fending off every fleet in the galaxy is making me borderline suicidal, so if anything I'm tempted to spend 20€ just on that dark matter civic.
@FidiFox9 ай бұрын
Well, the idea is to use Star Eaters to eat stars for massive amounts of Dark Matter to get there. Waiting 140 years for resource tick would drive anyone mad.
@niightwollf28659 ай бұрын
Montu: Should you buy astral planes dlc Me(who has already bought it): Interesting video wonder if I should buy it XD
@dragonnsv97109 ай бұрын
Ima be real with you. There is very little Stellaris can do to not have me buy there DLC’s
@Bigtooly9 ай бұрын
stellaris barely changes the actual things I want it to improve for ages, they just chasing dlc for dlc's sake
@jayjaysk66355 ай бұрын
Great review. Thank you.
@ericlondon26639 ай бұрын
"Should you buy [Insert Stellaris DLC]?" PARADOX GAMERS: "They already have my wallet."
@RKGrizz9 ай бұрын
If this was $10 I would have snatched it up day one but alas this is another expensive dlc in the strategy genre.
@therealspeedwagon14519 ай бұрын
I plan on getting it around Black Friday when the price should hopefully be cut in half
@TrueWolves9 ай бұрын
For new Paradox DLC? Sadly probably not. But a lot of their older DLC maybe.
@matt461429 ай бұрын
I want to play. And I own it. But it’s broken and a lot of other players are facing the same issue 😢
@Byssbod9 ай бұрын
Thanks montuwu, you're a gentleman and a saint
@matthewedwards60259 ай бұрын
This is the buggiest patch PDX has released, by far. Many leader bonuses don't work, many ascention perk bonuses don't work, there are big balance problems with the 3.10.0 patch, and many users complain about frequent crashes. IMO, this is all due to Paradox outsourcing the work to low-cost bidders (or the low-cost bidders outsourcing!). The game will be unplayable for at least a week.
@Zathurious9 ай бұрын
Well, wanting to take advantage of the preorder discount, I already bought it. Now, I'm just waiting for mods to be updated. I've been with this game since 2016 so, I already have all of the dlcs.
@blahblah-blah1795 ай бұрын
If I'm paying $25 for a glorified choose your own adventure DLC then it better has more content than the entire published Silmarillion and LoTR combined.
@Blundabus13378 ай бұрын
20 bucks for basically a story pack is kind of sad.
@blockrock449 ай бұрын
Thanks for the review!
@kutkuknight9 ай бұрын
Me watching the "should you buy it" video while waiting for my payment to be processed *gigachad music*
@denistalalae33609 ай бұрын
Astral Planes playthrough felt like, well... Physics researches are OP. You have like x1.5 or maybe even x2 physics research rate than sociology and engineering. Especially with the science building you can unlock using astral threads. Energy weapons, which are no-brainer for low-difficulty PvE, are now *yay* even more powerful cause you can get them too early. Combined with First Contact 50%-next-tier-laser events you can get T5 lasers VERY EARLY and since you don't have to spend science to unlock them, feel free to research a new reactor so you can fit your new lasers into your ships. Feels weird tbh. Definitely need something similar for engineering and sociology just to feel that all science branches are equal. Well, maybe there's some mechanics increasing sociology like observation stations, rangers civic, swarm genocide bonuses, whatever, but engineering feels off.
@icewolfwolfie1739 ай бұрын
The watchers and now there is the formless and the abberath and so on
@formalfiend73089 ай бұрын
My money vanished into the black hole that is Paradox long before this video came out.
@Xiuhtec9 ай бұрын
I preordered for 15 or so off an alternative storefront. ITAD is a godsend. With inflation lately that's not much of a difference in my financial situation, but I understand some people feeling some reluctance to just accept a fairly large all at once jump in the pricing standard. I fully expect the next "real" expansion to be 30 now. New normal. Games have always had a stronger pricing inertia than most consumer goods (they sat at 40 for a decade or so, then 50, 60, etc rather than going up a buck or two every other year), so when the adjustments do come they're felt more.
@davidwoodward51019 ай бұрын
ITAD +1. It is such a magnificent site for saving money on games :)
@stevegardner61399 ай бұрын
it also has a problem of authenticating the DLC a real pain in the rear a suppose work around is to go and verify game files sometimes it works and sometimes it don't.
@michaelthayer53519 ай бұрын
I mean the devs even understood the price would be the main sticking point which is why it's 10% off through the 27th. So $18 instead of $20. I still think that's $5-7 overpriced, but I still picked it up because I've been playing since launch in 2016, have all the other DLC, and spend way too much of my free time genoci- I mean subjuga- I mean exploring the Galaxy.
@thomasator11399 ай бұрын
I feel like a lot of the dlc have gone downhill. Nothing has come close to utopia, apocalypse, federations, megacorp, or even synthetic dawn in a while. Lack of new megastructures, empire types, crisis factions, ascension paths and perks, and really just play styles has been disappointing to see. The only major positive has been story driven origins, as they have consistently gotten better, but aren’t typically very replayable
@MemekingSupreme9 ай бұрын
Certainly feels like Stellaris is in a "maintain at low cost" type of phase. All the major content additions are done, and now they just need to keep people happy to squeeze the last dregs of profit they can while they work on other projects
@luzekiel93438 ай бұрын
Why would you want more bloat and more potentially unbalanced stuff.
@MemekingSupreme8 ай бұрын
@luzekiel9343 it's not bloat, it's additional *paid* content. If they just stopped making DLC entirely it'd be fine (although I'd get bored and stop playing because I have so many hours). But, if they ARE releasing DLC it should be substantial and worth buying. It hasn't been for a few releases now
@Seedmember9 ай бұрын
I haven't played Stellaris in a long while, but from what I heard in this video, the dlc sounds like a repackaged mod that costs one third of the original game. Considering that PDX did this with the latest EU4 dlc, they've been making a lot of weird choices lately.
@luzekiel93438 ай бұрын
It really doesn't but ok. I love how people shit on this dlc when it added way more content than the previous dlcs.
@cadenr71659 ай бұрын
IDC, I'm buying it for the tall civic anyway lmao
@andromedach9 ай бұрын
Twenty dollars, they can keep it. I will wait a year for it to be on sale. Like the last story pack they have raised the price beyond reason.
@notsm9 ай бұрын
"Rift that like button"? That's quite the reach there...
@infiniteisfun30409 ай бұрын
For some reason my game doesn't enable the DLC half the time, anyone else getting this problem?
@Emanon...5 ай бұрын
I stopped buying thing on release a long time ago. Honestly, there are dusins of mods out there that are vastly better than most DLCs - for every game I've delved 1000+ hours into. It's hard for me to justify 30€ for a few new shiny things, or even 10-15€ for BS cosmetic DLCs.
@thehunter87149 ай бұрын
I think the next big expansion should focus on the exiting FE and original crisis's making them more of a threat and expanding their features, maybe having something more unique to them like an unique planet that's an entirely a forge world that was used to mass produced titans or a planet so large that it collapsed into a sun or black hole but granted them the ability to do that to other planets, idk these are just ideas I'm firing off but I think they need to take bigger risks with stellaris. Oh and catch console up please and thank you
@DASBIGUN9 ай бұрын
I hate how accurate that beginning is.
@TheSaraphic9 ай бұрын
I'm a new player but I thought it was worth the price of admission. One expansion of Stellaris for the price of taking two people to the movies? Sure why not.
@buzzinggz5566 ай бұрын
This is not an expansion
@philgunsaules24689 ай бұрын
A launch so broken, people who didn't buy it also can't play Stellaris.
@ProffessorYellow9 ай бұрын
TLDR: $20 dollar dlc with $8 dollars of content. I suspect Paradox is subscribing to the profit models of larger companies like Blizzard by producing less for more capitalizing on a strong fanbase. Edit: I enjoy it sure, but with a sense of loss and regret. I bought it and have been testing stuff for about 20 hours now. It really doesn't interface with other dlc's in any special manner, the dark consortium literally skips some major game progression, and the lack of actual narrative is the real red flag. I have never seen Paradox slack on narrative before to this extent, the origin is really a bundle of non-unique mechanics, especially compared to the stories we received with other dlc. I have to be honest, the quality of Paradox is dropping while the prices are increasing. Shrinkflation at this point appears to be the future of Paradox. I would price this amount of dlc and effort at $8 USD tops.
@buzzinggz5566 ай бұрын
This comment is more interesting than the video
@iliketea91229 ай бұрын
Bro that opening played me like a fucking fiddle 😭
@TheFlood9118 ай бұрын
Honestly I just got it to play tall on a birch world ngl. Worth the money? Prolly not. Looking forward to the narrative bits though.
@TheGXDivider9 ай бұрын
Yay 3.10 messed my UI mod.
@dima91719 ай бұрын
New challange: drink a shor of vodka whenever you hear the sords « astral » and « rift »
@chattychatotchannel9 ай бұрын
I wish it had more portraits to justify the price
@cstains55439 ай бұрын
Looks like a sale sort of DLC.
@TheRewasder979 ай бұрын
Thing is, even if Paradox is rising prices of DLC, like everyone else is doing, they are at least delivering in quality, and well, they have the custodian team. With the recent debacle with CA and total war, I really can't find any reason to complain about PDX.
@raw66689 ай бұрын
So Montee, any opinion on the Formless?
@Atenvardo9 ай бұрын
Love it, but I am still waiting for them to fix the late game fleet lag, even an option to have one model for each ship type represent in a fleet so our games aren’t a crawl. Great video as always Montu!
@bkfalcon9 ай бұрын
Its more like a Story Pack then... First DLC I did not buy day one then...
@TheRealEtaoinShrdlu9 ай бұрын
I uninstalled Stellaris today. After years of great new content they have dropped the ball. There are now much more bugs than features in the game and it has become a bloated mess. The final kicker for me was experiencing all of the same bugs that have existed for years now, after I bought 3.10 and updated to 3.10.1. The devs have cleaely given up. So will I.
@Darlf_Sevil9 ай бұрын
To late
@ThwartAbyss549 ай бұрын
i finally played stellaris for the first time the other day and played for 16 hours straight from beginning to crisis end... i may be one of those laughing people XD
@rexamillion84469 ай бұрын
Not gonna lie, as soon as I saw it I didn't even look at what it was, just bought it >.
@Hunter-pt4zy9 ай бұрын
I honestly feel like they mainly added this entire thing to see what modders will likely do with it as well. As cool as this is, some of it feels rather barebones.
@ethanprw9 ай бұрын
Yeah I think it’s mixed. Good dlc but encourages this kinda pricing moving forward :p
@PanHaszaman9 ай бұрын
One portrait species... Jaysus how lazy is that?!
@hersh11389 ай бұрын
Ive been pouring over the patch notes but havent found it anywhere. Did they change the starbase defense platform count?